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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SC panel for ban on Karnataka mining by Dhananjay Mahapatra

SC panel for ban on Karnataka mining by Dhananjay Mahapatra

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published Published on Aug 25, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 25, 2011

The Supreme Court's environment panel, Central Empowered Committee (CEC), on Friday concurred with the Karnataka Lokayukta to report rampant illegal iron ore mining in Chitradurga and Tumkur districts and recommended a complete ban on private mining.

Submitting the CEC's report to a bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and Swatanter Kumar, amicus curiae A D N Rao said the adverse impact on environment in these two districts was identical to the one witnessed in Bellary and advocated controlled mining as had been ordered by the apex court in Bellary.

The court issued notice to the Karnataka government and sought its response within a week to the CEC's recommendation that mining activity be completely banned in these two districts before putting in place an interim arrangement on the lines of the one in Bellary district, where mining is done by public sector undertakings meant to meet the requirement of the domestic steel industry.

"The CEC is of the view that the level of illegality and environmental degradation caused by mining leases in district Tumkur are in no way less that that which has taken place in district Bellary (even though the level of production is much less than Bellary)," it said.

"The level of illegality and environmental degradation is relatively lesser in District Chitradurga. However, here also the situation is far from satisfactory," the CEC said.

The environment impact report was compiled by CEC member secretary M K Jiwrajika, who on the apex court's July 29 directive extensively toured the affected areas of Chitradurga and Tumkur along with other CEC members.

The CEC reported heavy damage to the already depleted forest cover in Tumkur and said: "Streams flowing from the mines carry fine particles into surrounding water bodies and the agricultural fields, all of which get polluted. This along with air pollution has an adverse impact on agriculture and horticulture production particularly as the area is highly sensitive."

Air and noise pollution caused by movement of a large number of trucks carrying iron ore has wreaked havoc on the adjoining agricultural fields and villages adversely impacting the quality of life of people in the adjoining areas.

"The CEC is of the considered view that mining of iron ore in district Tumkur has been done in an environmentally unsustainable manner and without taking into consideration the imperatives of intergeneration equity, large scale illegalities and irregularities have taken place in the matter of mining of iron ore," the report said.

"The mining is/was being done in a reckless and irresponsible manner with the prime objective of over-exploitation of iron ore for purely short term private gains," it said while reaching identical findings on iron ore mining in Chitradurga district.

The Times of India, 20 August, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/developmental-issues/SC-panel-for-ban-on-Karnataka-mining/articleshow/9666870.cms


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